swaying to a score of lowest frequency
shadowed by steel giants recast from molten machines,
replanted on a Vermont meadow where Holsteins
once grazed in predictable rhythm

what else to name a flock of feather-gowned
bodies, impervious to suspended steel
and boulders, bird-women who embrace
precarity

Candelin Wahl is an emerging Vermont poet who explores relationships in all their tangled forms. She is Co-Editor of Mud Season Review. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the 2017 Best of the Burlington Writer’s Workshop, HerStory and Red Wolf Journal.